(Among other things, he was the top question-asker on Quora for a long time, and perhaps still holds the record for “asked most questions on Quora”)
He’s an amazing networker, which is enabled by his situational awareness. (Really anyone who’s a good networker is so because of their good situational awareness.)
I know Alex as a friend, but I don’t really know what the outcome has been of his networking/Quora activity. Can you provide any concrete examples of value he’s generated by doing what he does?
Not to be mean, but how much value has Alex actually generated? The size of his network is very impressive, but do we know that making it has had substantial positive outcomes?
(This is mostly a rhetorical question because I know Alex and his activities very well. I know my opinion but perhaps you will disagree. Also, he knows about my skepticism.)
Alex Chen is the archetype of “generating value by maintaining situational awareness”
https://www.quora.com/profile/Alex-K-Chen
(Among other things, he was the top question-asker on Quora for a long time, and perhaps still holds the record for “asked most questions on Quora”)
He’s an amazing networker, which is enabled by his situational awareness. (Really anyone who’s a good networker is so because of their good situational awareness.)
I know Alex as a friend, but I don’t really know what the outcome has been of his networking/Quora activity. Can you provide any concrete examples of value he’s generated by doing what he does?
Unfortunately (and also related to some of the points of the OP), all the concrete examples that come to mind are confidential.
Actually, I’ve gotten a lot of personal value from being on a couple facebook messenger groups he curates. That’s not confidential :-)
Not to be mean, but how much value has Alex actually generated? The size of his network is very impressive, but do we know that making it has had substantial positive outcomes?
(This is mostly a rhetorical question because I know Alex and his activities very well. I know my opinion but perhaps you will disagree. Also, he knows about my skepticism.)
I don’t know enough to give an exhaustive account here.
I can say with high confidence that the 2019 Intercollegiate Psychedelics Summit at UPenn would not have happened if not for Alex’s networking.
“Staying relevant is my long goal”
-- Alex Chen